What the heck is an AI Agent?
Not a chatbot with more steps “Agentic AI” gets used for basically anything with a system prompt now. It isn’t a chatbot that’s more polite about calling tools. The actual difference is structural: an agent runs a loop, a chatbot answers a turn. A chatbot takes input, produces output, done. State lives in the conversation history you paste back in. An agent runs its own loop: observe, decide, act, observe again, using its own outputs to decide what to do next, without a human in the middle of every step. ...